Bonita Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Graham County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 mi. NW of jct. of AZ 266 and Arizona Industrial School Rd., Bonita, 85643
When was it listed? March 1998
Category. building
Also known as. Warfare Between Indians and Americans in Arizona MPS
Census division. Bonita-Klondyke
National Register reference number. 98000172 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Bonita Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,535 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	13
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District	MOTHERS
5 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Gila District Office	BONITA
31 August 1995	Smoking	3.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
3 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	340 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
26 August 2000	Natural	80 acres	Coronado National Forest	BUCKET
1 August 1993	Natural	2.5 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
1 August 1993	Natural	15 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
29 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District	JESUS

Every fire recorded in Graham County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bonita Store: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, Beryllium, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Twilight and Grey Claims	Beryllium, Mica	Occurrence	Beryl, Mica
Adits and Shaft	Gold	Prospect
Name Unknown	Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Claypit	Clay	Past Producer
Claypit	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Clay Pits	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Graham County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonita, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonita	$6,000	no account filed
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonita	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several power poles near the Bonita school.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonita	-	Strong thunderstorm wind gusts snapped one power pole in half which then caused seven others to topple down 17 miles north of the Town of Willcox.
August 1998	Flash Flood	Bonita	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Graham County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Sierra Bonita Ranch	6.8 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000172 in Record Group 79.
Graham County	All 31 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.